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The S.S. Gorsefield

AUGUST 8TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At about 3.40 A.M. the ScarletPoint, Castletown, coastguard reported a vessel aground a quarter of a mile from Castletown breakwater. A strong southerly wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 4.15 A.M. the coastguard asked for the life-boat, and at 5.5 A.M. the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was launched. She found the S.S. Gorsefield, of Liverpool, with a crew of eleven, bound light from Dublin to Silloth. She had been carried off her course by a strong ebb tide, and had grounded on a submerged rock. The lifeboat stood by until the Gorsefield got off on the flowing tide, and returned to her station at 7.10 A.M. - Rewards, £11 17s. 6d..